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Get Joel's Book: Https://amzn.to/48GwbLxAll Things STS: Https://linktr.ee/stspodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingTheSurvivorYouTube: Surviving The Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime - YouTube#STSNation, Welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor, the podcast that promises to bring you the very #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime.Accused healthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione faces both state and federal charges, including murder as an act of terrorism. This high-profile case raises complex legal questions about due process, public bias, and the growing tension between corporate America and societal frustrations. Best Guests: Professor Jo Potuto joined the faculty of University of Nebraska in 1974. She currently teaches Federal Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law, Sports Law, and Criminal Procedure. She also maintains a special interest in Conflict of Laws and Appellate Advocacy and, among other courses, has taught Mass Communications, Civil Procedure, Contract and Criminal Law. In 2003 Potuto received the Nebraska Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award. Professor Potuto is the author of three books – Prisoner Collateral Attacks: Habeas Corpus and Federal Prisoner Motion Practice; Winning Appeals; and Federal Criminal Jury Instructions (co-authored with Perlman and Saltzburg). Randy Zelin is a NYC-based former prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney with more than 30 years experience. He's tried cases against both DOJ and SEC. Randy is also an adjunct professor at Cornell Law appearing on Fox News, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNN Headline News, Bloomberg, Newsmax, NewsNation and local network television #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #CEOMurder #LuigiMangione #FreeLuigi #JusticeForBrianThompson #SurvivingTheSurvivor #TerrorismCharges
Corporate policies serve as a tangible manifestation of a business's core values and ethical standards, and these policies can help to cultivate a cohesive organizational culture that aligns with those values and standards. For instance, transparent communication policies can build trust within the workforce, encouraging open dialogue and collaborative problem solving. Company policies related to political and economic changes can highlight a company's core values as well.Join Rich John, adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, as he talks about how a company's rules and the policies they implement have a direct connection to what they value. Professor John will also look at past precedent and discuss why more and more companies are defining their political stances in their employee handbooks.The Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Learn more in our law and human resources programs, including the Compliance Systems certificate authored by Rich John.Did you enjoy this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast? Watch the full Keynote. Follow eCornell on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X.
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This week, Linda Abraham welcomes Dean Shane Cooper, Senior Associate Dean for Admissions, Financial Aid and Student Services at Cornell School of Law. Dean Cooper shares insights into the admissions process at Cornell Law School, emphasizing the mutual goal of finding the right fit between the school and the applicant. We discuss the benefits of small class sizes, close faculty interaction, and strong international programs. Despite its Ithaca location, the school offers abundant opportunities for experiential learning. Dean Cooper explains that Cornell accepts LSAT, GRE, or GMAT scores without preference, with financial aid linked to the strength of these scores. He highlights the importance of diverse experiences and well-rounded characters in applicants, and we explore how interviews, re-applicant growth, and the Why Cornell essay play significant roles in the admissions process. Dean Cooper underscores Cornell Law's commitment to opening doors for students and making a positive impact on the legal community.Mentioned in today's episode:Cornell Law School JD ProgramAre You Ready for Law School?, Accepted's Free Law School Admissions Quiz Related Admissions Straight Talk episodes:How to Get Into George Washington School of Law How to Get into Washington University in St. Louis School of LawHow to Get into USC Gould School of LawJD-Next: A Great Option for Law School ApplicantsHow to Get into the University of Chicago Law SchoolFollow UsYouTubeFacebookLinkedInContact Uswww.accepted.comsupport@accepted.com+1 (310) 815-9553
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Welcome Back to a brand new epsidoe of Red Flags Everywhere! This week we sit down with the dynamic Attorney Symone Redwine, a powerful trial attorney, law professor, aspiring comedian, and legal commentator. Known for her blend of sharp legal acumen and bold Southern attitude, Symone shares her insights on the red flags people often ignore in legal disputes. From the necessity of prenups to the importance of background checks, Symone provides invaluable advice for navigating relationships and legal matters. She also opens up about the red flags she overlooked in her own life, offering lessons on self-awareness and understanding personal and partner capacities. Our guest today is Symone Redwine (she/her): a powerful trial attorney and law professor with beauty, brains, and a bold Southern attitude. A Cornell Law graduate, she's also a legal and social commentator, frequently appearing on TMZ, ABC News, FOX, and her YouTube channel "Girl, Is That Legal?" where she provides insightful and often humorous commentary on a range of issues from celebrity legal drama to relationship matters. Website: https://symoneredwine.com/ , IG: @attorneysymoneredwine We want to hear from you! Need some advice? Got a question? Want to join in on the conversation? Hit us up: Instagram: @redflagseverywherepod Email: redflagseverywherepodcast@gmail.com TikTok: @redflagseverywherepod Facebook Page Facebook Group: Red Flags Everywhere Podcast Checkout video clips on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5uGxccsNMeLWixLwIa5qHg SUPPORT THE SHOW: We can't do the show without your support! Become a member, at a level that works for you, and get access to bonus content, features, and other cool goodies for supporting the content you love. Click here to find out more! Credits: Host/Producer - James Arthur M. (he/him) @jamesarthurm Producer/Editor - Sarah Brown (she/her) @sbrownsays Closing Music - Manny Baltazar (he/him) @mannybalty
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Listen to Bill O'Reilly's recent commentary on college protests, where he's joined by Harvard grad and podcast host Julia Hartman to explore the connection between Harvard and liberal ideology. Bernie Goldberg adds insights into antisemitism within anti-Israel protests, while Cornell Law professor William Jacobson discusses how Anti-Semitism has metastasized from DEI initiatives on the Cornell campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bill Jacobsen, Cornell Law Professor LIVE on LI in the AM w/ Jay Oliver! by JVC Broadcasting
Bill Jacobsen, Cornell Law Professor LIVE on LI in the AM w/ Jay Oliver! by JVC Broadcasting
Bill Jacobsen, Cornell Law Professor LIVE on LI in the AM w/ Jay Oliver! by JVC Broadcasting
Bill Jacobsen, Cornell Law Professor LIVE on LI in the AM w/ Jay Oliver! by JVC Broadcasting
Bill Jacobsen, Cornell Law Professor LIVE on LI in the AM w/ Jay Oliver! by JVC Broadcasting
The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for April 16, 2024Doesn't U.S. Law Already Prohibit Non-Citizens from Voting in Federal Elections? Yes, it Does.In an announcement April 11th heralded as a major “election integrity” policy proposal, former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson announced their intention to require proof of citizenship to vote. Spoiler alert: It's already required.To view the whole script of today's report, please go to our website.Today's LinksArticles & Resources:States Newsroom/Nebraska Examiner - GOP, Trump build on immigration fears to push voting restrictions in statesBipartisan Policy Center - Four Things to Know about Noncitizen VotingBrennan Center for Justice - Noncitizens Are Not Voting in Federal or State Elections — Here's WhyNPR - Republicans aim to stop noncitizen voting in federal elections. It's already illegalBallotPedia - Laws permitting noncitizens to vote in the United StatesCato Institute - (2020) Noncitizens Don't Illegally Vote in Detectable NumbersU.S. Code via Cornell Law - 18 U.S. Code § 611 - Voting by aliensU.S. Congress via Cornell Law - Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996,Heritage Foundation - Voter Fraud DatabaseGroups Taking ActionBrennan Center for Justice, Immigration Policy Center Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter and SHARE! Find all of our reports at AmericanDemocracyMinute.orgWant ADM sent to your email? Sign up here!Are you a radio station? Find our broadcast files at Pacifica Radio Network's Audioport and PRX#Democracy #DemocracyNews #Misinformation #Disinformation #2024Election
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"Group results are going to be baked into the system without any regard for the individual. And it's going to take place at such a deep level that it will be very hard to prove. The administrator at Cornell or Harvard or Yale can say, 'I know nothing about this. We don't discriminate. We're just using software that says it's bias-free. Don't sue me!'"In this episode, I sit down with Cornell law professor William Jacobson. Out of Cornell's 1,700 faculty members, he is the only one openly conservative, and for over a decade has faced threats, harassment, and organized campaigns to eject him from the school."The one diversity that you will never hear implemented on campuses is diversity of viewpoint," says Mr. Jacobson.He is the founder of the Legal Insurrection blog and foundation, which exposes and takes action against DEI discrimination in higher education, medical schools, and the corporate world."When you look at these DEI statements, they not only require you to recite that you agree with this, they also want you to show how you have tailored your career to advance it," says Mr. Jacobson.We discuss the rise of critical race theory on college campuses and its spread to other institutions, and the importance of elevating the individual over group identity. We also dive into the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, and the threat of AI algorithms infused with DEI principles."Right now, we're on the cusp of this explosion of baked-in quotas through technology. Now is the time that people have to learn about it," says Mr. Jacobson.
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On today's show, Mike Slater takes the time to FULLY explore Donald J. Trump's legal situation after a full day of reflection and openly ponder what the future will hold for the former (and potentially future) U.S. President. Is he doomed in the long-run or is there actual legitimate hope to be found?Following that, Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson joins the program to answer some legal questions from an educated expert's perspective. You'll want to hear what he has to say about the ins and outs of all of these tricky court cases!
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Part 1 of Tony's interview with William Jacobson, Cornell Law Professor, about the indictment of President Trump in Georgia and why they are desperate to throw the kitchen sink at him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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#BestGuests #LongIslandSerialKiller #LISKLive coverage and reaction to the Suffolk County, New York District Attorney's Press Conference on accused serial killer Rex Heuermann. #BestGuests Randy Zelin is a NYC-based former prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney with more than 30 years experience. He's tried cases against both DOJ and SEC. Randy is also an adjunct professor at Cornell Law appearing on Fox News, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNN Headline News, Bloomberg, Newsmax, NewsNation and local network television —————- "Sunny" Slaughter, Founder and Managing Principal of Sunny Slaughter Consulting, LLC., has been called the Master Connector and the Olivia Pope of Crime; she was featured in Women Leadership Magazine USA as one of DC's top 25 Women Business Leaders in 2020 and 2021. She is also a TEDx Speaker. Ms. Slaughter is a federally certified law enforcement instructor ——————/ Peter Massey started his career at the Hamden, CT Department of Police Services rising to the rank of Detective. He retired in July 2003 after more than twenty years to become the Training Coordinator for the National Crime Scene Training and Technology Center at the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science. He is currently a Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. #LongIslandSerialKiller #LISK #NewYorkSerialKiller #RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #SuffolkCounty #LongIsland #Architect #Manhattan #SerialKiller #ColdCase #NYC #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #Idaho4 #BryanKohberger #DomesticViolence
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Hey Pickles!Happy birthday to Christine!!In this episode, we recap our Live Vegan Trivia Night. There's a positive update on the Trade Murphy Right to Rescue case. We have a new recipe from Our Vegan Kitchen. It's a vegan Crunchwrap!!In our Noteworthy section, we tell you about a chef in Perth that has banned vegans from his restaurant. In our Main Topic, we go down a Vegan Reddit rabbit hole to answer the question, "Am I The Ass Hat?"!You'll get a Reason To Be Vegan, and our usual vegan shenanigans!Thank you so much for listening!We love you, Sam & ChristineHere are the links:Cornell Law files suit challenging gag order against Tracy Murphy of Asha Farm Sanctuary https://cornell1a.law.cornell.edu/news/news.php?news=clinic-files-lawsuit-challenging-gag-order-as-unconstitutionalCeleb chef BANS all vegans from his restaurant after a customer complained about her meat-free mealhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12213137/Perth-Fyre-chef-John-Mountain-bans-vegans-customer-complaint.html Support the showJoin Our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CompassionandcucumbersSign Up For Our Newsletterhttps://www.compassionandcucumbers.comDonate To Food Empowerment Project https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CucumbersOur YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@compassioncucumbersveganpod/videos72 Reasons To Be Vegan *paid link https://amzn.to/3W8ZwsUVisit Our Website https://www.compassionandcucumbers.comSam's Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/CucumberCraftworksJoin the AFA Vegan Voter Hub https://agriculturefairnessalliance.org/vegan-voter-hub/
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The federal government has always had debt. How much is too much, and how do politicians exploit it? This episode originally dropped in August 2022, but since the subject is in the news, we've been getting lots of questions about it!SUPPORT OUR WORK - DONATE TO CIVICS 101 TODAY!Since our nation's founding, the federal government has borrowed money from other governments, private investors, and businesses in order to operate. Over the last century, the debt ceiling, a Congressional cap on how much debt we can have, keeps getting higher and higher. We talk about how the national debt works, how it's been used as political leverage, and how that impacts the health of our economy. Louise Sheiner, senior economics fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Michael Dorf, Constitutional law professor at Cornell Law, help us make sense of trillions of dollars in debt.
#STSNation,Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of True Crime…Bryan Kohberger was just indicted by a Grand Jury and will be in Court on Monday for his arraignment. What does this mean for the trajectory of the case? Police say the killer is 28 year old Bryan Christopher Kohberger. WE WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT BRYAN KOHBERGER IS PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW #BestGuests: Randy Zelin is a NYC-based former prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney with more than 30 years experience. He's tried cases against both DOJ and SEC. Randy is also an adjunct professor at Cornell Law appearing on Fox News, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNN Headline News, Bloomberg, Newsmax, NewsNation and local network televisionScott Roder, founder of the Evidence Room, is an internationally recognized evidence specialist who has consulted over 1500 cases since 2001The Evidence Room employs a team of specialists with backgrounds in art, 3D modeling, forensic animation, motion graphics, time based media, biomedical illustration, architectural design, law and crime, and shooting scene reconstruction. HOSTS PODCAST called crime scene Time MachineTroy Lambert is an Idaho-based freelance writer, mystery author, multi-genre editor, and non-fiction author and ghostwriter Troy has a wealth of experience and knowledge, especially about the area in and around Moscow — and also writes for Unbound Northwest. He's the author of the popular Max Boucher Murder Mystery series…His son attended the University of Idaho at the time of the murders. #IdahoStudentMurders #TrueCrime #Idaho4 #IdahoStudentsTrueCrime #IdahoLatest #IdahoToday #MoscowMurders #TrueCrime #BryanKohberger
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In today's Episode (42), we are wrapping up the initial series on property and intellectual property, and I am really excited about helping you understand local, state, federal, and international a bit better, and how each plays an important role in protecting yourself, your property, and particularly, your intellectual property. I'm going to walk you through where to find each of these kinds of laws, how they are similar to each other - and a bit different than what you might think they are. And, since I am in Louisiana, I will talk about Louisiana law from a state law standpoint, but the places that I tell you about to look for the law are going to be the same if you're in a different state, so don't freak out - just use the same logic for looking it up. There are a handful of links in the show notes, so go use those! As always, there's a ton we could go deep about, but right now, we are focusing on the foundations of law. Just like most of what we talk about, the law is a lot more straightforward than you think it is - or lawyers want you to believe it is. What I want to do is to help educate you about where to go looking for that information, and so that you know enough about it to know when you need help. At the end, as always, I leave you with a bit of homework to start taking action today. Y'all ready? Let's do this! >>> My mission is to help service-based professionals figure out exactly what they want, realize it's 100% within reach, and create a simple, actionable plan that will get them there. I'd love to support you, too! Here are some ways you can start creating your rich, happy life today! FREE RESOURCES Start setting clear expectations with clients with this Contracts Guide! If you struggle to find the right words to tell a client no, or that you need time to get back to them, or even if you're going on vacation and want to be left alone, then these simple strategies for better boundaries are going to be your new best friend! Grab these swipe copy and paste email script templates today! Build a healthier lifestyle and add more joy in your life in this Masterclass! LOW-COST RESOURCES Start fixing your top 3 most frustrating situations TODAY in this Managing Expectations Mini-Course! ($19) Start getting Boundaries *and* Balance in this Workshop ($29) - especially as you head into the new year! Tag me, follow me, and DM me with your thoughts and questions: Instagram @sheilamwilkinson and Facebook @lawyercoachsheila Rate this podcast/episode on Apple Podcasts here Not on Apple Podcasts? No worries! Rate and Review on our site and make sure to leave a question for a future episode! Learn more about me here: https://sheilawilkinson.com Free Stuff, Fun Stuff, Links & More: https://sheilawilkinson.com/links Resources from the Show (All Copyrights belong to their respective owners) Map of the Legal Systems of the World (Option 1, more complicated) Map of the Legal Systems of the World (Option 2, simpler to see overall - and here's the legend to Map 2, making it easier to understand) Louisiana State Legislature: legis.la.gov State Legislature Websites - For U.S. States and Territories: https://www.congress.gov/state-legislature-websites Congress.gov provides legislative information from the House and Senate of the United States Congress. Use the links below to visit similar websites for the U.S. states and territories. Also see state government resources. Cornell Law's Legal Information Institute Municipal Codes + Ordinances
Few technological disruptors to the entertainment industry have appeared quite as fast, or as existentially forebodingly, as artificial intelligence. After ChatGPT, DALL-E and other new AI technologies became publicly available in recent months, Cornell Law professor James Grimmelmann says, “I could feel the ground shifting.” Today, he walks our hosts through samples of AI music, script-writing and visual effects, and the ways in which the industry may be forced to evolve. “I don't think Hollywood should be afraid. But every person should be thinking how every creative job… is going to look different as a result of this.” Also on tap: what's coming under Bob Iger's second shot at Disney. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theankler.com/subscribe
In today's episode I speak with Jenni Katzman who is a government & policy lawyer with experience in all three branches of government, several political campaigns, and non-profit advocacy organizations. Currently, she is the General Counsel and Chief of Domestic Policy for Senator Ron Wyden (D-Or). Before working on Capitol Hill, Jenni worked as a Director of Policy Development and Programming at the American Constitution Society and before that in the Executive Branch at the White House, DOJ, and the Department of Education, and as a Voter Protection Counsel for the Obama for America Campaign. Prior to her career in policy, she worked in private practice at two different law firms and served as a law clerk to a federal judge. She is a graduate of Duke and Cornell Law. In our conversation we discuss her path to the law, her experience clerking after several years in private practice, the transition from litigation to policy work, the roles that lawyers play on Capitol Hill and in the Executive Branch, what its like to be a lawyer in a fast-paced presidential campaign, the power of not just saying no but also trying to come up with creative solutions to get to yes, why diversity is so important on Capitol Hill and throughout the government, what distinguishes policy work from other areas of legal practice, and the importance of speaking up as a junior lawyer. This episode is sponsored, edited, and engineered by LawPods, a professional podcast production company for busy attorneys. Want to Support the Podcast in 2 minutes or less? Leave a Review (this helps the algorithm connect me to new listeners) Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify Purchase How I Lawyer Merchandise Share on LinkedIn or Twitter
On today's episode we are discussing Merrill v. Milligan a case regarding redistricting in Alabama and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What is democracy, if not representation of the will of the people? You can read more about the case and listen to the oral argument here: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-1086. Here are some additional resources we used in creating this episode: Case overview from Cornell Law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/21-1086 Merrill v. Milligan SCOTUS stay order in February: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a375_d18f.pdf Brnovich v. DNC decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1257_g204.pdf
Find out the latest admissions news and what it all means [Show Summary] It was a very newsy November and in this episode, Linda Abraham is covering the most notable updates in the graduate admissions world: law school test waivers, top school withdrawals from US News rankings, accommodations for laid-off workers, and more! In this bonus episode, Linda Abraham, Accepted founder and CEO, talks about the latest admissions news and what impact this can have on applicants [Show Notes] Thanks for joining me for this bonus episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Last month was indeed a very newsy November. It was full of admissions news and I just decided I'd be remiss if I didn't touch on it for Admission Straight Talk listeners. Hence this bonus episode. In the meantime, if you have any thoughts or feedback for me on this episode or any other episode, feel free to email me at ast@accepted.com. American Bar Association Ceases Requiring Admissions Tests From Law Schools [0:55] All right, the first news item that I'd like to touch on is the American Bar Association. It looks like it will cease requiring that law schools require admissions tests which would mostly be the LSAT and the GRE. (A couple of schools accept the GMAT) And they're going to do that as of 2025. If this change is finally approved, as is very likely, law schools can individually choose whether to require an admissions test or not. Based on the experience of business schools that have gone with a lot of test optionality, most law schools will either require it of all incoming applicants, or they will require the test, but offer applicants the opportunity to apply for a waiver. Or they might say, "Those who meet certain requirements can automatically get a waiver." How will this apply to you? If you have good grades and tend not to test well, optionality is fantastic news for you, because you won't have to take the test if you apply to schools where the test is optional after 2025. However, schools do want to know that you can do the work. If your academic record leaves something to be desired or doesn't convey your abilities adequately, it would probably still be wise to prepare for and take the test so that it will better show your abilities. It's too early to tell, but in the business school realm, I think it's true that a high test score can enhance somebody's chances of getting a scholarship. As I indicated, it's my gut feeling in the B-school world, and it may become true in the law school world as well. If a scholarship is important to you, even if you have the grades, and particularly if you test well, it may make sense for you to take the test, even if it is optional. Whatever it is, just keep in mind that schools want to admit people they believe can thrive in their programs. Make sure that somehow, you're providing them that confidence. Top Schools Withdrawing From US News Rankings [3:08] Newsy November item number two is that top-15 law schools are withdrawing, with two exceptions, from the US News rankings. It all started when Yale and Harvard withdrew from the US News rankings on November 16th. They were followed by Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Columbia, Penn, University of Michigan, Duke, Northwestern, Georgetown, UC Davis, and UC Irvine. Today I read about the University of Washington, and there may be more by the time we get this recording posted. The University of Chicago and Cornell Law announced that they currently intend to stay in the rankings. For the schools that decided to withdraw, what's their motivation? They say that the rankings simply don't jive with their values. They've discouraged diversity and they've discouraged schools from accepting applicants who are more interested in public interest law which pays less than corporate law. You might have noticed that it was mostly the top 15 or so schools that withdrew from the rankings. Top schools don't need the publicity they get from the rankings as ...
Brittany Laughlin grew up in an entrepreneur household that fostered her passion for building things that don't exist. This foundation served her well as she found herself working in the tech side of venture capital, quickly becoming curious about a new technology called Bitcoin. Her curiosity and passion for building new things eventually led her to working with Stacks and becoming a leader in the web3 space. Currently, Brittany serves as the Executive Director of the Stacks Foundation, has co-founded her own VC firm, Lattice Ventures, and is a professor at Cornell Law School.I sat down with Brittany to talk about the incredible work the Stacks Foundation does, why it's important to rethink money, education, and identity, how Brittany feels about often being the only woman in the room in the crypto space, how being a powerhouse woman informs her leadership style, and why she's personally really excited about the way web3 is moving society forward.-Meet Our GuestBrittany is the Executive Director of the Stacks Foundation, making it possible to program on top of Bitcoin. She teaches DeFi at Cornell Law School, welcoming the next wave of legal degens into the space. Prior to Stacks.org she was the Head of IR and Ecosystem Growth at Hiro PBC. She's worked on Stack's path to decentralization through ecosystem growth, including a qualification by the SEC, and R&D on token economics. She started investing in Web3 in 2013 at Union Square Ventures with their first investment in Coinbase and then continued through her own fund, Lattice Ventures before jumping in as a full time operator. She loves supporting the global tech community and is often traveling for adventures or to meet up to share ideas. She's convinced that the only way forward is more ownership over data and better collaboration on the world's largest problems.Connect with Brittany on Twitter-What We Unraveled * Brittany's history growing up in an entrepreneur household, and working in venture capital and how it lead her to getting started with crypto* How the Stacks Foundation helps thousands of people despite being a small team, and why she's really proud of the work they do* Why Brittany believes technology opens up new markets, removes barriers, and supports people to create value in business* Financial systems, value transfers going back in history, and how it relates to Bitcoin today* All the factors that we should be questioning with the complicated US banking system, and how decentralization and trustless systems are an answer to the problems* The course Brittany has coming, based on a class she's taught for 3 years at Cornell Law, that will give people a high level overview of how decentralized finance works and a framework to to evaluate web3 projects* What ‘DeFi' means, and how the term encompasses pretty much every area of finance you can imagine, including lending and stable coins * The benefits and tradeoffs of decentralized financial systems versus traditional ones* The notable differences between communities in web2 and web3, and what makes the Stacks community different in particular* What Stacks is, the ideas that prompted the project, and what their key focus is now* The value of having a portable identity that isn't attached to Gmail or Facebook* Why Brittany believes that the next wave of web3 users won't necessarily care about crypto as much as having an experience completely novel to blockchain* The key areas of growth Brittany sees in web3, including decentralized identity and civil resistance* Why Brittany is personally excited about the prospect of using web3 technology for good to move society forward, with a huge focus on revolutionizing education* What...
There are two ways people get involved in real estate: either they stumble upon it or they purposefully do it. Today's guest, John Errico, somehow experienced both at different points of his real estate adventure. John got involved in real estate in an almost accidental manner. Tired of paying rent, he and his wife, who was also an attorney, decided to buy a two-family property and ended up house-hacking it. Eight months after this first purchase, they bought their second house, then soon the third one – and the rest is history. A serial entrepreneur and a Yale and Cornell Law graduate, John left his full-time law practice in 2013 to run venture-backed technology startups in California and New York, including a company in the real estate space. In 2014, he began building a real estate portfolio in the New York City area that eventually spanned out to Union City, New Haven, and now, Atlantic City. In 2018, John and his partner, Ryan Goldfarb, started Liberty Hudson Capital. Soon, they will be up to 100 doors in Atlantic City. They also recently closed a 48-unit old hotel building in the area, and their plans for it are exciting. Very intentional and very purposeful about everything, now they're part of the narrative of rebuilding the once-doomed Atlantic City. In this episode, you will hear: How John got into the real estate space How house-hacking got them to buy other houses The transition from tech stuff to full-time real estate Tips before going into joint ventures Why Ryan doesn't recommend starting a construction company as a real estate investor Why you want to invest in Atlantic City The value of diversifying your portfolios Subscribe and Review Have you subscribed to our podcast? We'd love for you to subscribe if you haven't yet. We'd love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast. Supporting Resources: Website - https://www.libertyhudson.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-errico/ Liberty Hudson Solutions - https://www.libertyhudsonsolutions.com/ Bench Properties - https://www.bench-properties.com/ Brick x Brick Podcast - https://www.libertyhudsonsolutions.com/podcast The Case for Atlantic City -https://www.libertyhudsonsolutions.com/podcast/episode/2126fb87/the-case-for-investing-in-atlantic-city-real-estate Jonathan's guest spot on Brick x Brick - https://www.libertyhudsonsolutions.com/podcast/episode/21e0bf0c/formulating-your-real-estate-investing-strategy-withjonathan-greene Bigger Pockets - www.biggerpockets.com Interview with Ryan Goldfarb: https://www.trustgreene.com/podcast/zen/011 Book: The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Americas/dp/1589795474 Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing Resources Website - www.streamlined.properties YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanGreeneRE/videos Instagram - www.instagram.com/trustgreene Instagram - www.instagram.com/streamlinedproperties TikTok - www.tiktok.com/@trustgreene Zillow - www.zillow.com/profile/Streamlined%20Prop%20eXp Bigger Pockets - www.biggerpockets.com/users/TrustGreene Facebook - www.facebook.com/streamlinedproperties/ Email - info@streamlined.properties Episode Credits If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Emerald City Productions. They helped me grow and produce the podcast you are listening to right now. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com Let them know we sent you.
Since our nation's founding, the federal government has borrowed money from other governments, private investors, and businesses in order to operate. Over the last century, the debt ceiling, a Congressional cap on how much debt we can have, keeps getting higher and higher. We talk about how the national debt works, how it's been used as political leverage, and how that impacts the health of our economy. Louise Sheiner, senior economics fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Michael Dorf, Constitutional law professor at Cornell Law, help us make sense of trillions of dollars in debt.
This week Nathan learns about why Kylie is afraid of the internet by discussing the online affair turned cold-blooded murder. Instagram: @whyimafraidof Remember to subscribe and rate! Sources: Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163757/Tall-hot-blonde-internet-love-triangle-left-man-shot-dead-jealous-rival.html ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/online-love-triangle-deception-end-murder/story?id=14371076 Cornell Law https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/manslaughter The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/webs-killer-love-triangle
Introducing new WVBR News Directors Jack Donnellan and Andrew Modrowsky! Join Jack as he provides updates on the goings-on at the station and what to expect from WVBR news in the future.Also, hear WVBR's top-notch reporting team break down the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, in which a majority of the Supreme Court privately voted to strike down Roe v. Wade. To break down the massive impact of this draft, Grace Fairchild and Jackie Torres interviewed Cornell Law Professor Sherry Colb, an expert in criminal law and procedure and feminist legal studies. Fairchild, Torres, and outgoing WVBR President Clara Enders also provide their own analysis of the future consequences likely to stem from the Dobbs ruling.wvbr.com/afterhoursCatch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com.Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Back in 2016, clerks at Gibson's Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, stopped a group of black shoplifters from stealing from their store. What they didn't realize was that act would set them on a six year legal battle.The tiny, family owned bakery was accused of racial profiling for stopping the shoplifters. That accusation caused students and faculty from nearby Oberlin College to engage in a smear campaign to get them shut down.A libel case filed by the owners of the bakery recently concluded, with the bakery owners emerging victorious. This hasn't stopped the school from continuing to accuse the shop of being racist.“They have been completely unapologetic. They have been very aggressive towards this bakery,” says Bill Jacobson, a Cornell Law professor and founder of Legal Insurrection. “They continue to make their false accusations of racism against the bakery, they show no remorse whatsoever.”Jacobson and Legal Insurrection have been covering this case since the very beginning. He joins the show to give a background on the case, as well as discuss what the verdict means for other woke schools targeting small businesses.We also cover these stories:President Biden says the most “extreme political organization that's existed in recent American history” is the “MAGA crowd.”Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. wants to stop tax breaks for companies who cover travel costs for their employees to have an abortion.The computer repair shop owner who exposed Hunter Biden's laptop has filed a defamation suit against Congressman Adam Schiff, Democrat from California, as well as CNN, the Daily Beast and Politico. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We're back for our third season! Kicking off the 2022 season, we explore the juvenile justice system in Pennsylvania.We spoke to Megan Kurlychek, Professor of Sociology, Criminology and Public Policy and Associate Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Penn State, and Rick Steele, Executive Director of the Juvenile Court Judges' Commission at the Pennsylvania Commonwealth, about their work in the juvenile justice field, the history of the juvenile justice system, prevention programs, the issue of recidivism, and more.Episode Resources and NotesMegan mentions that she began her career working at the National Center for Juvenile Justice, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Both Rick and Megan discuss the concept of parens patriae. According to the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law, parens patriae is Latin for "parent of the people." Under parens patriae, a state or court has a paternal and protective role over its citizens or others subject to its jurisdiction.Megan discusses the court case, In re Gault, as one of the landmark Supreme Court cases that changed how juvenile justice was approached back in the 1960s.Rick refers to the MAYSI-2, the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument – Second Version, when mentioning how behavioral health and substance use issues are assessed among justice-involved youth.Additionally, Rick discusses how the Pennsylvania Commonwealth has incorporated the University of Cincinnati's EPICS, Effective Practices in Community Supervision, into their probation model.Rick mentions using a standardized program evaluation protocol based on the work by Mark Lipsey, Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.Megan mentions a prevention program that partners nurses with young mothers called the Nurse-Family Partnership.The School-to-Prison Pipeline is something that both Megan and Rick discuss as it relates to prevention research and programming.Megan talks about risk need assessments for assessing justice-involved youth. More information is available here.Rick discusses the Models for Change program, which helped to advance reforms to make juvenile justice systems more fair, effective, rational, and developmentally appropriate. He also mentions the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program, which is nationally renowned.JCJC's reports are available online for anyone interested in reading more about their work.Rick talks about working with other researchers in the field such as Gina Vincent, Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Keith Cruise from Fordham University, and Edward Mulvey, Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine.Megan mentions her book, The Cycle of Juvenile Justice, which she co-wrote with Tom Bernard, Ph.D. back in 2010.The transcript for the episode is available here.
Kevin Daisey chatted with Phillip Pippenger, the Managing Partner at McKinney Phillips LLC. Phillip had deep technical background in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, MS Quantum Electronics from Rice University, and JD from Cornell Law. His areas of technical expertise include electronics, software, data processing, imaging, graphics, cellular, mechanical, electromechanical, electrochemical, and photonics technologies. Learn from his expertise and what trends are helping grow his firm on this episode of The Managing Partners Podcast! —- Array Digital provides bold marketing that helps managing partners grow their law firms. arraylaw.com Follow us on Instagram: @array.digital Follow us on Twitter: @thisisarray Call us for a FREE digital marketing review: 757-333-3021 SUBSCRIBE to The Managing Partners Podcast for conversations with the nation's top attorneys.
On January 11, a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Illinois against 16 major US universities, including Cornell, for antitrust violations. The lawsuit claims that these universities unlawfully collaborate on student aid calculations and fail to truly apply need-blind admissions policies. To gain a better understanding of the history of financial aid price fixing, its impacts on students, and Cornell's place in the case, Jackie Torres and Grace Fairchild interviewed Cornell Law and Economics Professor George Hay, an expert in antitrust law and economics.wvbr.com/afterhoursCatch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com.Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Lalor speaks with Cornell Law Professor William A. Jacobson about his federal class action lawsuit against the NYS Dept. of Health for discrimination. From the complaint: "The New York Department of Health recently established guidelines for medical providers to give automatic priority to “non-whites” and individuals with 'Hispanic/Latino ethnicity” in distributing life-saving COVID-19 treatments. See Memorandum of December 27, 2021 (attached as Exhibit 1). Under these guidelines, nonHispanic white individuals who test positive for COVID-19 are ineligible for oral antiviral treatments unless they also demonstrate “a medical condition or other factors that increase their risk for severe illness.' Lalor and Professor Jacobson also cover Jacobson's successful legal website LegalInsurrection.com and how leftist on and off campus have tried to "cancel" him for being the only openly right of center person on the Cornell campus. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
WICB News correspondent Andrew Garoppo talks to students at the Cornell Law School about their work helping Afghan refugees in the U.S., including everything that goes into their work and perceptions of refugees in the U.S. Originally aired November 14, 2021 Ithaca Now is WICB's weekly news program covering news, issues, and culture in the Ithaca area. For more local news, visit wicb.org/news.
On this episode, Derek sits down and talks with News Media Legend, Ken Lindner. From his days at Cornell Law, getting his undergrad at Harvard, to his secret strategy to defeat Tennis Legend, Arthur Ashe, from his time at William Morris Agency to founding, "Ken Lindner & Associates" plus he will discuss his latest book, "Career Choreography: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Finding the Right Job and Achieving Huge Success and Happiness,”. You will not want to miss this amazing episode.
In this week’s episode of The Room Podcast, Madison and Claudia sit down with Katherine Salisbury, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Qapital, a mobile banking app designed to help incentivize people to save smarter. Qapital’s Chief Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely leverages science to propel people into better money habits. Since its inception in 2015, Qapital has helped millions of users collectively save over $2 billion. This week’s key themes include navigating raising venture capital with an untraditional background, co-founding your business with your significant other, and when to make your product a paid product in the world of free. Let’s open the door. Season 4 is sponsored by our friends at SVB and Cooley. … Key Theme 1: Navigating raising venture capital with an untraditional background After graduating from Cornell Law, Katherine started her career as a lawyer in New York City before moving to Europe to found and run a sports management company focused on soccer. Without a background in FinTech, Katherine advises founders to just show up and put in the time and energy. It’s a learning curve to work out all the kinks, but you have to be willing to try, be embarrassed, and mess up. Key Theme 2: Co-founding your business with your significant other Co-founding Qapital with her significant other George Friedman, Katherine gives some tips on how to balance personal and work life. She says it’s sometimes easier to be on the same rollercoaster with a significant other as they share compassion for one another whether it be through the good or bad moments. Katherine also emphasises the importance of turning it off and knowing when to put work aside for the day. Key Theme 3: When to make your product a paid product in the world of free When deciding the pricing scheme for her product, Katherine and her team went to several pricing experts and ended up developing a lasting partnership with Simon Kucher. They tested different options out and were able to back up Katherine’s initial intuitions with detailed research. … Thank you so much for tuning into another week of The Room Podcast. Join us on Clubhouse on Wednesday, Sept. 1 at 1:30PM PST to hear directly from Katherine! New episodes launch every Tuesday at 7AM PST.
Brad Young is At Your Service tonight, and speaks with St.Charles Mayor Dan Borgmeyer about how the county has dealt with COVID-19 in the past and the new Delta variant. Mayor Borgmeyer also gives us a sneak peek at a new development in St. Charles called the River Walk, which will connect different areas of the county like New York boroughs. Brad Young then speaks with Cornell Law School professor, William Jacobson, about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools. Jacobson also runs the website LegalInsurrection.com where you can find more information about CRT and which schools teach this topic.
An interview with Daniel, a non-traditional student with character and fitness issues and a complicated educational history going to Cornell Law.
The Money on the Left Editorial Collective presents a classic episode from our archives along with a previously unavailable transcript & graphic art. In this episode, we're joined by Rohan Grey (@rohangrey), President of the Modern Money Network, Director of the National Jobs for All Coalition, Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and JSD student at Cornell Law school.Our conversation is dedicated to Rohan's current work on the political, economic, and cultural implications of money's digital future.Rohan's report on digital fiat money: “The Case for Digital Legal Tender: The Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Digital Fiat Currency.”Theme music by Hillbilly Motobike.Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureLink to our GoFundMe: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/money-on-the-left-superstructure
In this podcast, Mike and Spivey Consulting COO Anna Hicks have a discussion with a current law student, Amanda Bello, who ended her 1L year at Cornell Law in the top 10% of her class, transferred to Harvard Law, earned exceptionally strong grades at Harvard, and is now going into her second summer with the big law firm Gibson Dunn (check out our interview with Gibson Dunn partner Jeff Chapman here https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/interview-with-jeff-chapman/). Also referenced in this podcast are three interviews we have done with renowned psychologists and wellness advocates: - Dr. Guy Winch (on handling rejection and waiting) https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/podcast-with-dr-guy-winch/ - Dr. Gabor Maté (on self-esteem, doubt, anxiety and addiction) https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/podcast-interview-with-dr-gabor-mate-author-of-in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts/ - Dr. Kristin Neff (on self-compassion and self-esteem and motivation for test-taking) https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/podcast-interview-with-dr-kristin-neff/ You can listen and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Google Podcasts — just search for "Status Check with Spivey." spiveyconsulting.com | spiveyblog.com | myrankbyspivey.com
With segments from the April 3rd radio broadcast, this episode asks Dr. Christine Balance, Cornell PMA and Asian American Studies professor, about the rise in violence against Asian Americans in the US. Later, we visit with Cornell Law Professor John Blume about the legal procedures and norms behind the Derek Chauvin trial. Segments by Izzy Frabotta, Jade Ovadia, and Grace Fairchild. Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com.Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them here.
Maria Fernandez, head of ethics and compliance at Direct Energy, talks with LRN’s Ben DiPietro about her journey from law to ethics and compliance; how she uses her psychology degree to advance her program’s goals; and what companies need to do to turn their rhetoric about diversity, equity, and inclusion into action. “Corporations are suddenly saying, ‘Oh, I need to stop talking about it, and I need to do something.’ If the corporations continue that focus, and people continue to push the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion, I think it will continue.” - Maria Fernandez Maria Fernandez is vice president, head of ethics and compliance at Direct Energy. Maria supports Direct Energy’s lines of business to ensure they are operating in accordance with all relevant standards and regulations. Direct Energy is one of North America’s largest energy and energy-related service providers; it merged with NRG Energy in January 2021. Prior to her position at Direct Energy, Fernandez worked at IBM where she held various leadership positions. including being responsible for the design and implementation of IBM’s global compliance program, communication strategies and employee training modules. She was senior regional counsel of Latin America for IBM, where she managed all legal and compliance matters for the Latin America organization. Fernandez received her B.A. in psychology from Lehman College, and received her J.D. from Cornell Law. She is admitted to the bars of the states of New York and California, and the United States Supreme Court. She currently is vice chair of the membership committee of the President's Council of Cornell Women; and a member on the Houston Integrated School District district advisory committee. What You’ll Learn on This Episode: [1:30] What sparked Fernandez’s interest in ethics and compliance and how has her career path led to her to where she is today? [5:00] How does Fernandez’s background in psychology help her in her current role? [6:26] What are the impacts to the energy industry and ethics and compliance as the world transitions away from fossil fuels? [8:36] How is Covid-19 impacting Direct Energy's ethics and compliance department? [10:58] Does Fernandez believe the current conversation about social justice will result in long-term change? [14:28] As a woman in compliance, what advice does Fernandez give to women, and specifically women of color, who are thinking about entering the field? Find this episode of Principled on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Podyssey, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
William Jacobson Cornell Law Professor, LegalInsurrection.com, talks with Tony about how the impeachment trial isn’t really an impeachment trial. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rohan Grey, president of Modern Money Network & doctoral fellow at Cornell Law, joins Santiago Velez, co-founder and R&D division lead for Block Digital, to discuss the controversial STABLE Act, the history of private and public monies, and the future of stable coins. Grey gives a detailed history lesson on money and its relationship to government. They talk through the key tenets of the STABLE Act and its implications for the crypto space over all and stable coins more specifically. Grey explains the differences between Central Bank Digital Currencies and E-Money and touches on the importance of privacy for financial transactions. Key Learnings: The government and public monies are strongly connected, and Grey believes that there are major systemic risks presented by assets aiming to disrupt the government's oversight of the issuance of its money with history providing strong evidence of these risks. For those investing in the crypto space, the passing of the STABLE Act may negatively impact certain types of stable coin projects as some may fall under the umbrella of this bill. Higher regulatory burdens may force some crypto projects to shutdown while those who are capable of meeting the higher bar may flourish with regulatory backing. Recorded on December 14, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With segments from the December 12th radio show, Cornell Professors Colleen Carey, John Blume, and Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer share their insight on vaccine distribution, the death penalty, and DACA, respectively.Reporters: Izzy Frabotta, Jade Ovadia, Grace Fairchildwvbr.com/afterhoursCatch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com.Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Music written, recorded and produced by Rain. Find them here.
About Don Frederico "I serve as Co-Chair of Pierce Atwood's nationally ranked class action defense practice. For more than twenty years, my class action practice has covered a wide variety of industries and substantive areas of law. I work closely with clients at every stage of a class action lawsuit, and have appeared on their behalf in federal and state courts across the country. I also am available as a class action mediator, bringing to bear my experience in mediating and settling class action lawsuits to help both sides arrive at settlements that will gain court approval." https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfrederico/ Episode Summary Joe is joined by Don, his long time friend and high school classmate. Don and Joe share a love for music and guitar dating back to those high school days. They went separate ways after graduation and pursued very different careers. They re-connected at a high school reunion several years ago and picked right up where they left off. In this episode Don unpacks his career and life transitions. He is a highly successful Boston litigator with a specialty in Class Action defense. He also counts pro-bono and non-profit leadership as some of his greatest successes including work with the Boston Bar Association and Chair of the Board of Trustees for The College of Wooster. Whether you are a lawyer, interested in law as a career or anyone seeking to understand and learn how to successfully navigate career and life transitions you will gain great insight from this episode!Watch Video Versionhttps://youtu.be/jPsXhGJyGRYResources and ReferencesA Paper Chase: https://amzn.to/32Mky6wA Civil Action: https://amzn.to/2KhnvpjThe College of Wooster: https://www.wooster.edu/Cornell Law https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/titansot)
This episode explores arguments about Native American law in the United States. We talk about the recent McGirt Decision, language and law surrounding native people, reservations, and rights. We talk about Neil Gorsuch - is he the kind of conservative we thought we were getting? Signs point to no. . . And our first listener question is finally addressed! Joining us on this episode is Emily Harwell and we are so grateful for her time and expertise on these questions. Emily Harwell is a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation and is from the Sac & Fox Nation in Oklahoma. Emily received her Bachelors Degree from Dartmouth College where she served as co-chair of the Annual Dartmouth College Powwow and President of the Native Americans at Dartmouth. In 2014, she assisted with organizing a group of volunteers to work with the Denver American Indian community to establish gardens and garden spaces during Dartmouth's Spring Break. Emily continues to give back to the Dartmouth Native community through serving as Treasurer of the Native American Alumni of Dartmouth. In 2019, Emily attended the American Indian Law Center's Pre-Law Summer Institute for Indigenous law students. Emily is a rising second year law student at Cornell Law. She is the President of the Native American Law Student Association (NALSA). In her role as President, she is advocating for institutional changes in support of Native American and Alaskan Native students including the founding of an American Indian Law Journal, hiring of Indigenous faculty, and increasing availability of American Indian Law courses. This summer, Emily was a law clerk at the Native American Rights Fund and where she worked on voting rights litigation to mitigate institutional barriers to Native American voters. Emily is interested in civil litigation, jurisdictional matters, and the intersection of these issues with American Indian Law. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inthebin/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inthebin/support
Here’s the Ithaca Minute from 14850 Today for April 21st. The Ithaca Police Department is investigating the theft of a package from a porch in Ithaca’s west end on Monday afternoon, helped by home security video showing what appears to be a group of teens. A group of four is shown in the video walking by the house, then two stop and one of them plucks a package off the porch and puts it in the other’s backpack. And The Bike Rack in Collegetown has closed its doors after about 49 years, and longtime owner Gary Weidberg has retired. When Gary’s brother Cliff Weidberg started The Bike Rack in 1971, “he was attending Cornell Law and identified a need for quality, affordable bikes and service in a convenient location for the Cornell community,” Gary tells us. He passed the business along to his brother when he graduated, and Gary has since owned and operated the store and an ever-expanding accessory sales business for the 45 years since. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in iTunes or Google Play, RadioPublic, TuneIn, Stitcher, or via RSS feed, or follow 14850.com on Facebook and Twitter.
Donald J. Trump is visiting India. Is this a presidential visit to advance ties of both countries, or is this a political visit to ensure the re-election of Donald Trump as president? But why would Trump go to India if he wants to win an election? Tune in as I discuss electoral politics and demographics with pollster and incoming Cornell Law student Nitin Nainani as we discuss why this visit and why now? We believe it's because the Indian-American vote and demographics do matter. Demographics are not destiny, which is why you see many Indians shifting from the Democratic Party and changing their loyalties or voting for Donald Trump, and he knows this. Several battleground states that Trump needs to win have a thriving and rising Indian-American population. Swadeshi/Videshi is an exploration of India's political, socio-economic, and historical past and present through an insider and outsider's perspective with host Sudhanshu Kaushik as he dissects the complexities of current events occurring for young Indians and diaspora members to digest with interviews of experts while also having conversations with young Indians to gauge what India is to young Indians all over the world. Intro and Outro Credit: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Mystery Bazaar" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Music from https://filmmusic.io "Sneaky Adventure" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
In this podcast, Littler’s Chief Knowledge Officer, Scott Rechtschaffen, talks with his Cornell Law School students about the potential for lawyers to use software to develop practical tools for the delivery of legal services. During their semester, the students experienced how to take their growing knowledge of the law, identify a problem, coordinate with subject matter and technical experts, and create a legal app designed to assist users, who might be either clients or fellow attorneys. Students share how the class broadened their understanding of programming and how such apps can make the legal practice more efficient, less expensive, and more accessible for more people, such as through client intake, organization of case data, or educational apps that teach potential clients about legal issues. The group also brainstorms on how future applications could create innovations in various practice areas.
Bestselling author, ultra-endurance athlete, plant-based nutrition advocate and sober father Rich Roll has been hailed as one of the world’s fittest men. He also graduated from Stanford and Cornell Law and built up a successful law practice, all while drowning in alcohol. Then, after years of sobriety, he realized he was anesthetizing himself with food the way he had with drinking and what started out as a cleanse turned into—well, one of the world’s fittest men. Here, we talk about familial expectations, being an alcoholic in New York and the spiritual aspects of recovery as well as the tragic death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, among many other things. THIS IS A RE-RELEASE OF AN OLD EPISODE AS WE PREP FOR THE SHOW RE-VAMP (get excited)!
This episode features John Leja, the Founder and CEO of multiple cannabis companies such as NuSierra Holdings and iVIK Holdings Ltd. He is also a former lawyer and graduate of Cornell Law. Here he discusses how he got started in the business, trends in the industry, and success stories.
This episode features John Leja, the Founder and CEO of multiple cannabis companies such as NuSierra Holdings and iVIK Holdings Ltd. He is also a former lawyer and graduate of Cornell Law. Here he discusses how he got started in the business, trends in the industry, and success stories.
Joel, who met Brian at a New York City law firm, comes to the podcast, and they discuss their time at the firm together, his Brown and Cornell Law education, their trip on Brian's airplane, and his weekend warrior athletic exploits. (0:51).
We're taking this one out from behind the paywall for a special occasion (and a sample of what you can find as a paying customer). This time we continue our discussion from the last episode with Cornell Law professor Robert Hockett, Green New Deal adviser to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We talk more broadly about climate change, politics, and moral philosophy.
In this episode of Macro n Cheese, Professor Robert Hockett of Cornell Law and a Fellow of the Century Foundation, talks about how Pelosi's PayGo is dangerously misleading. Steve and Hockett discuss the implications of a Green New Deal. Hockett writes about law, justice, money, finance, and economics for Forbes and many other publications.
In this episode of Macro n Cheese, Professor Robert Hockett of Cornell Law and a Fellow of the Century Foundation, talks about how Pelosi's PayGo is dangerously misleading. Steve and Hockett discuss the implications of a Green New Deal. Hockett writes about law, justice, money, finance, and economics for Forbes and many other publications.
Interview with Cornell Tech's Dean Matthew D'Amore and Admissions Director Dr. Raymond Lutzky [Show Summary] The Cornell Tech campus and programs on Roosevelt Island in New York City have INNOVATIVE stamped on them. Hear from Dean Matt D’Amore and Admissions Director Dr. Ray Lutzky about the inception of the program, the innovative degrees currently being offered, how to get in, and what the future holds for Cornell Tech’s lucky students and graduates. Get to Know Cornell Tech [Show Notes] Our guests today are Dean Matt D’Amore, Associate Dean at Cornell Tech and Professor of Practice, Cornell Tech and Cornell Law; and Dr. Ray Lutzky, Senior Director of Enrollment and Admissions at Cornell Tech. Since they both have bios and resumes longer than my arm, I’m going to do away with the details and simply welcome them. Dean D’Amore: Can you give a little background or brief history about Cornell Tech? [2:10] Cornell Tech grew out of a 2011 competition from Mayor Bloomberg, who wanted to incentivize a first-class technical campus in NYC, and solicited bids from major academic institutions. Seven or eight schools ultimately submitted bids, including Columbia, NYU, MIT and Stanford, and Cornell won out in a joint bid with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. We were awarded land to build a campus and started from there. The academic curriculum is a combination of seven masters programs and a small PhD program with applied sciences in technical areas. Normally I ask for an overview of the one or two programs my podcast guest represents. However, you both work with seven masters programs and several PhD programs. We’re going to focus this episode on the master’s options: Johnson Cornell Tech MBA, MS of Engineering in Computer Science, MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s In Operations Research and Info Engineering, LLM in Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Technion-Cornell Dual Master’s Degrees in Connective Media, and the Technion-Cornell dual Master’s Degrees in Health Tech. I’m going to suggest that we not get an overview of each program and I’m going to ask what these very different programs have in common. What makes them Cornell Tech programs? [4:06] Studio is what ties all the programs together. The Studio curriculum is 1/3 of all our one-year programs. It is a cohesive interdisciplinary program based around product development and the basics of figuring out whether to launch a company, how to launch a company, and provides students with the basic skills and insights to help them decide if they want to found a startup when they graduate as well as the tools to do so. It sounds like Cornell Tech is very entrepreneurially-focused. Do established companies want graduates from Cornell Tech? Or is it a mix? [6:01] We’ve been experimenting and looking at ways of working with established companies in addition to startups. With the studio program, part of our mission is to inspire and help students to spin out companies, and we have done 40-50 companies in the past five years. We also have curriculum that’s built around established companies, where practitioners come to campus and ask questions like, “How might we bring banking services to rural areas?” “How might we better educate people about retirement options?” All one-year students do Product Studio in the fall with faculty, practitioners, and sponsor companies to work on broad challenges to come up with a product. In the spring students have two studios to choose from, either Start Up Studio or “Big Co” Studio. Start Up Studio is focused on figuring out how to build a company. “Big Co” Studio students typically at least short term work at Amazon, Google, banks, other tech companies, and we want to be able to teach them about how to innovate within the big company environment. Fall studio is a matching program based on a bidding system and area of interest so we don’t have all computer science students on one project – they are matched on interes...
In this episode, we’re joined by Rohan Grey, President of the Modern Money Network, Director of the National Jobs for All Coalition, Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and JSD student at Cornell Law school.Our conversation is dedicated to Rohan’s current work on the political, economic, and cultural implications of money’s digital future.Rohan's report on digital fiat money: https://bit.ly/2K4els2Twitter: @rohangrey
In this episode, I am excited to have spoken to Nicole Sandoz, Lauren Dubin, and Michael Goldman: 3 amazing lawyers from Georgetown Law School. Lauren Dubin is Director of Public Sector Careers in the Office of Public Interest and Community Service and an administrator and facilitator for the Lawyers in Balance: Mindfulness for Law Students Program. Lauren graduated from the University of MD with an M.A. in Counseling, Higher Education and Career Development. She is dedicated to bringing the lessons of mindfulness to the Law Center community through ongoing meditation opportunities, continuing education and enhanced awareness of contemplative practice in professional development. Nicole Sandoz is the Director of Student Life and Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Liaison (SARVL) at Georgetown Law. She is also a facilitator in the Lawyers in Balance: Mindfulness for Law Students Program. Nicole is a graduate of Amherst College and Cornell Law. After law school, Nicole practiced for five years as a labor and employment attorney in Los Angeles in top-tier law firms. While in private practice, Nicole discovered meditation and yoga, and they have since become a regular part of her everyday practice. Michael Goldman, a Georgetown University Law Center graduate and a lawyer in a previous career, has been the Jewish Chaplain for the Law and Medical Centers since August 2002. He has been a student of Judaism for most his adult life and has taught numerous courses on Judaica, including courses at Georgetown. Prior to his involvement in LIB, Michael facilitated groups at the Georgetown Medical Center in their mind-body seminar. Based on that experience, Michael worked with administrators at the Georgetown Law to adapt the mind-body course for law students. In this regard, Michael has studied the works of Jon Kabat Zinn and Thich Nhat Hanh, among others, on the subject of mindfulness. He attended and presented at the June 2013 Workshop on Mindfulness in Legal Education at Berkeley Law. Topics Covered What led each of them down the path of mindfulness as lawyers, the inception of the program from Michael's background at the Medical School, and how the course is structured. The students feedback to the program and the benefits that they receive; from stress and anxiety reduction to skills that help them ultimately become better lawyers, like attentive and active listening and better focus in their courses. How this grass-roots program became all it's own over the years and how they train their facilitators. They also speak on tips for big law firms on implementing programs similar to theirs. The other applications of meditation and mindfulness at the law center and how the students founded The Contemplative Law Society to expand their reach to the community at large. You can learn more about them and their awesome work at: Lawyers in Balance Questions? Comments? 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Instead, they specialize in branding their clients as trusted, credible experts, increasing referrals, and ultimately driving growth. For our listeners, Spotlight Branding is offering a complimentary website review. Go to: SpotlightBranding.com/trl Transcript Intro: [00:00:02] Today's show is sponsored by Spotlight Branding. Spotlight Branding works exclusively with solo and small law firms to brand them as trusted, credible experts and help them stand out in a crowded market place. Their services include web design, social media, video marketing and more. Michael Goldman: [00:00:25] I think there are so many times where you're engaged in an issue, you join the issue, you're wrestling over the issue. And it can go sideways, as you indicated, but the ability to step back a little bit and say, wait a second, what if I concede this? Intro: [00:00:44] Welcome to The Resilient Lawyer podcast. In this podcast, we have meaningful, in-depth conversations with lawyers, entrepreneurs and change agents. We offer tools and strategies for creating a more joyful and satisfying life. And now your host, Jeena Cho. Jeena Cho: [00:01:10] Hello my friends. Thanks for being here with me today. In this episode, I am so delighted to have three amazing people from Georgetown Law School. I have Nicole Sandoz, Director of Student Life and Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Liaison. I have Lauren Dubin, Director of Public Sector Careers in the Office of Public Interest and Community Service. And finally, Michael Goldman, Chaplain of Georgetown Law and Medical School. All three of them are part of the Lawyers and Balance: Mindfulness Meditation Program at the law school. I'm really excited to see that law schools are actually making student well-being part of their priority. Jeena Cho: [00:01:51] Before we get into the interview, if you haven't heard the last episode, please go back and check it out. I shared a six minute guided meditation practice to help you let go of stress and anxiety. It's also very apt because we'll be talking about mindfulness and meditation in this episode. So often I hear lawyers complain that they know they should meditate, but they don't have the time. And so I created a program Mindful Pause, which is designed to help you incorporate mindfulness and meditation into your very busy schedule in six minutes or less. So if you're interested in learning more, please head on over to jeenacho.com to learn more. [00:02:30] And with that, here's Nicole, Lauren and Michael. Thanks to all three of you for being here with me today. Nicole Sandoz: [00:02:37] Thank you. We're excited. Jeena Cho: [00:02:41] So starting with Lauren, maybe we can just have you do a short 30 second introduction to who you are and what you do at the law school. Lauren Dubin: [00:02:49] Yeah sure, so I am part of an office that we affectionately call The Office of Public Interest and Community Service. It's a freestanding center that provides support to students at the Law Center that are interested in pursuing public service careers. And we run educational programs, provide advising, all sorts of different supportive initiatives, as well as run job fairs and just offer students opportunities to join the public sector. Jeena Cho: [00:03:20] Wonderful. How about you, Michael? Michael Goldman: [00:03:23] I am a graduate of Georgetown Law School and had a career practicing law. I mainly worked in employment law with particular emphasis in equal employment opportunity. After that, I came back to Georgetown Law as the Chaplain here. And we have a large, pretty significant campus ministry office here, as well as on the main campus. What we do is we counsel students in a whole variety of ways. Jeena Cho: [00:03:56] But I have to know more about this, how did you end up going from practicing law to becoming a chaplain? Michael Goldman: [00:04:03] My short answer is, they taught me to be an advocate at Georgetown Law and I talked my way into the job. Actually, I became very interested in my Judaism shortly after I graduated from Georgetown Law and am somewhat self-taught. And I've studied in many groups and I've taught in many contexts as well. So based on those credentials and experience, I was able to talk my way into the job. Jeena Cho: [00:04:35] I love hearing transition stories, and I feel like life is just a series of different transitions. I love that story. Nicole, last but not least. Nicole Sandoz: [00:04:46] Yeah, so I am also a former attorney. I practiced in Los Angeles for five years in two large law firms. I left to go be the Director of Career Services at Cornell for three years, and now I'm the Director of Student Life at Georgetown. I've been here for a couple years. In my job, I am responsible for co-curricular experience at Georgetown, including student orgs, the Student Bar Association, as well as any other thing that students do outside the classroom. Jeena Cho: [00:05:17] Wonderful. Before we get into the mindfulness program at the law school, I'm kind of curious to just hear from each of you what led you on this path to mindfulness and meditation. Because I often find that people end up practicing mindfulness and meditation (and it was certainly true for me) because there is some personal reason behind it. So I'm curious if you'd be willing to share and maybe Michael, we can start with you? Michael Goldman: [00:05:45] I'm happy to do that. As I said, I practiced law for many years. I was exposed to mindfulness at the medical school. Shortly after I arrived as the chaplain, and essentially I wanted to hit my head against the wall and say, oh if I only knew then. [00:06:06] Because you know, law was a steady diet of stress and conflict and challenge. And I thought wow; this would have been something that would have given me a strategy, maybe even an antidote for what I had experienced. So I felt it really had to come to the law students. Jeena Cho: [00:06:27] Yeah, it's so true. There is so many parts of practicing mindfulness and meditation where I go, yeah this would've been really helpful in law school. So I'm so glad that you guys are teaching it to the students. Nicole, how about you? Nicole Sandoz: [00:06:41] Yeah, so when I was practicing I found myself in the exact same position of a lot of stress, not being very happy in the job that I was in. And so I took a three month leave of absence. And during that three months of absence, my therapist introduced me to mindfulness and meditation as a way to deal with my anxiety and stress and some of the medication that I had started to be on, and she thought that this would be a good alternative, and it worked. And so I started doing it. I like to say that I practice once a week, I try really hard to do that. But this program at Georgetown has really re-inspired me about mindfulness and meditation and making it part of your daily life. Jeena Cho: [00:07:23] Yeah, how about you Lauren? Lauren Dubin: [00:07:23] So mine is a bit less self-initiated. Truthfully, Michael tapped me on the shoulder one day out in our atrium and said, "We're about to start a mindfulness program at the Law Center, would you be interested in participating?" And I had great respect for Michael and I was flattered and I thought, well I'm not sure what that is but yeah, I'm in. I've always been a seeker, so I did know what it was but I just didn't have the labels or the language at the time. And then immersed myself in this work and this philosophy in the subsequent eight years, now I can say that I'm still seeking. But I have you know, much more of our practice than I did eight years ago. Jeena Cho: [00:08:07] That's wonderful. So Michael, please tell me about the history of the program. Michael Goldman: [00:08:12] Well I gave you a little bit of the personal history. As I indicated, I am the Chaplain at the medical school, so I learned about things going on there and I was introduced to their Mind Body course there. And even before this started, I said to the woman who ran it, "We have to bring this to the law school. You have to let me take this to the law school." Anyhow, we went through it. It was kind of modeled on MBSR, a mindfulness-based stress reduction course, and I was even more convinced. I brought it here and it was not an easy sell, I have to tell you. It took about a year from people, "You want to do what?" But any event, the Dean of the law school finally came around and said you know what, that sounds like a good idea. And we have been putting on a few sessions, seminars every semester ever since. This was I think, 10 years ago Lauren was telling me. Interestingly, of course it's for the students, but also the staff was very interested in this as well. As a matter of fact, we had several faculty who participated as well. As you would guess, the students loved it. I mean we have the feedback sheets and they're really terrific. I've hesitated to quote them to professors because we do get very good reviews. [00:09:50] And I should also say that out of this, some very close groups were formed. Those people who took the mindfulness or Lawyers and Balance course together became friends, stayed friends through law school, and are still friends. Five, seven, eight years later they're close friends. So that's one of the nice bi-products of this, is that we create little communities as well as teaching mindfulness techniques. Jeena Cho: [00:10:18] I'm curious, what were some of the objections when you first tried to bring mindfulness into the law school? Michael Goldman: [00:10:25] I would say to sum it up, it's touchy-feely, and I remember from my days practicing law that was pretty much the ultimate stigma. And I never was particularly persuaded by that. I think another objection is, how is this academically rigorous, how do we document what you're doing? Do you have a syllabus, do you have a full curriculum? [00:10:54] And you know we didn't we didn't fit in to that mold, that is usually considered for law school. So I think that was definitely part of it. You know, let me rewind why it happened because I think your point is interesting. The then Dean had a daughter who was at the medical school and she took the Mind-Body course there. And then I got a wonderful advocate. Jeena Cho: [00:11:31] I love that, yeah I mean teaching mindfulness or learning about mindfulness is certainly very different from the Socratic method. As I understand it, law schools are kind of starting to shift away from it, I don't know if that's actually true but at least that's what I heard. Lauren Dubin: [00:11:45] Eight years ago was a very different era here, nine years ago actually. Now we have more of a wellness community or a wellness movement on campus, the students don't obtain credit for this though, we really haven't reached that level. But the university absolutely embraces this now, with there is much more support and it's on the admissions page. Students will articulate to us that one of the reasons they came to Georgetown is because we have this work, this program, so it's definitely a different era. Jeena Cho: [00:12:19] Well that's interesting, that it's a retention or attraction in a sense. I think some law firms are starting to offer some sort of wellness or well-being kind of committees or whatever to kind of try to attract talent. So yeah. Well I guess speaking of not knowing what the curriculum is and having people be like, this is really touchy-feely, I'm curious to learn what you guys actually teach? How is the course structured, how long is it, how many students enroll? Lauren Dubin: [00:12:52] So as Michael said, we inherited a curriculum, the program from the Mind-Body course over at the med school. And for the first couple of years, we pretty much followed it, with a little less of the science because our students weren't necessarily as interested in the science. But for the most part, what we inherited was a program that offers two hour sessions, one per week for eight weeks. Each session has two facilitators, trained facilitators, and typically has around 8 to 12 students per group. We invite one L's, LL's, LLL's, and LLM's to participate. And the curriculum, basically the sort of structure or outline of it is that each session begins with an opening meditation, just sort of calm yourself and leave the stressors of the classroom at the door. And then do what we call a "check in," a technique which is really a reflection technique, just to give students an opportunity to sort of begin to inculcate the notion of mindfulness as a, what am I feeling right now? What is it literally in this moment that is coming up for me? That might be animated through that opening meditation, it might be animated just by the question or the prompt. So students go around and share that with one another. [00:14:15] We then dive into that week's technique, and the techniques span eating meditation, guided imagery, journaling, stress re-frames, body scan, gratitude, all sorts of different things over the course of the eight weeks. So one of the facilitators will lead the students and the other facilitator in that meditation technique, which is a little bit longer. And then we typically will go around and have another reflection opportunity. And at that point, students are given the opportunity to just talk about how that meditation did or didn't work for them. And anything else that comes up. So we will often include a prompt that will say, how is it that you will carry this out into your week? Or tell us about a particularly mindful moment that you might have had this week. We try to build that as the semester goes on, because the concept of mindfulness, the concept of non-judgment is not something that you get right away. You have to begin to sort of taste it, touch it, and then eventually it starts to really click. [00:15:25] And one of the things that we hope to accomplish through this curriculum is that students also become much more mindful listeners. It's not just their own mindfulness, their own self-awareness, but it's something that they'll carry out into practice, something that they'll carry out into my life. So one of our ground rules is that when someone else is reflecting, all eyes on that person. You are focused and really present with that person. No cross-talk, hopefully no need to jump in and you know evaluate or to critique. But to really give that student the opportunity to express themselves. And then next person has their opportunity. But we frequently reinforce this notion that you're listening to that person and you're with that person. So it builds community, friendships, strong ties. Not to mention, they take it out with them. We give homework each week and we say, eat a meal mindfully, take a mindful walk without the phone, without the iPod. And then they come back and will share with us how that felt during the week. Jeena Cho: [00:16:38] Oh I love that. Yeah and it's so true, like you can learn something. I had this experience recently where I was like super angry about something, and I can just see that I'm just having a reaction and I was really angry. But I still couldn't sort of shake myself from feeling that anger. And it's so frustrating because it's like, I recognize why I'm feeling angry and I just feel like I should be able to get over it. [00:17:01] But I was still having that reaction so I just had to be like, well alright I'm just going to hold this moment kindly. But yeah, it's really kind of that re-learning the tool sort of over and over and over again. So yeah, I love that you guys give them homework. It really sounds basically like the MBSR course, which is a wonderful, wonderful program. Lauren Dubin: [00:17:23] There's also great power in the sharing, because as we go around the room everyone is nodding. So whatever trigger or stressor or source of anger or frustration that anyone is feeling, everyone else is feeling their version of it. So one of my favorite parts of this work is the sort of teaching and learning that comes out of it. So it's not just, I have to go back and re-frame my reaction to the anger. But I listen to the way Michael re-framed his, and maybe I can take some of that on too. So there is real power in that sharing and we love that part of this program. We've also tweaked it over the years to make it more of our own. We now also offer a one hour version, not just a two hour version, with the thought that more students might feel that they can fit one hour into their schedule. So there's not as much reflection, but we're getting great numbers. In fact, we usually have five to seven sessions per semester. So the math, that's around 60 to 80 students that take part in Lawyers and Balance every semester. Jeena Cho: [00:18:30] Yeah I remember in law school feeling completely isolated and alone because I just felt like you know, all this stuff that I was going through, just feeling like I didn't have a place in law school and just feeling completely overwhelmed all the time. And I love that you guys are creating this space where you know, like you can actually say that and have everyone in the room nod their head. And it really breaks that sense of isolation. There is something about learning that you're not alone in your experience that really is comforting. Nicole Sandoz: [00:19:01] I just had a session two days ago with my group, and it was our last session so we sort of went around and talked about why this was beneficial or if it was beneficial. And she said that this was the place that she felt the safest, that she could talk about the things she was going through, that she had made some friends. And that coming from an international background, and coming here and being so scared, but that she found community here. And it was like music to my ears because that is exactly the space that we want to provide for them, especially in law school when it can be so stressful and so insane. Jeena Cho: [00:19:39] Yeah. Nicole, can you talk a little bit more about some of the other benefits that the students experience? Nicole Sandoz: [00:19:46] Yeah, so we hear about all the normal benefits, right? The reduction of stress, decreased anxiety, the enhancing of the self-awareness. But for law students in particular, we just find it's been such a rich environment for them to grow some of the skills that they need to be lawyers. Like Lauren mentioned, the active listening, we hear all the time that they're more present with their clients in clinic or even just in conversations with their classmates, that they have better focus in class. We all know that there is you know, solitaire being played in class or Facebook or whatever, but some of our students report that they come back and they are actually focused in class because they're using some of the techniques that they had learned in Lawyers and Balance. [00:20:28] The building community for us here at Georgetown is huge. We're such a large school, with 600 entering first-year students, that it can sometimes just feel totally overwhelming. And so we build these small groups of students who know each other, who have had this experience together. And it's one of the ways that we make such a large law school feel small. They make friends, like Michael mentioned, and they just gain a little bit of perspective about this law school experience. I had another student of mine talk about how she's been so absorbed in law school that she didn't realize that her roommate was really suffering. And it was really when she took a step back and really looked at her roommate and listened to some of the words that were coming out of her roommates mouth, that she was like, oh my gosh she's really suffering. I need to get out of this law school experience and focus on my friend. So it's just these kind of things that we hear over and over again, in fact Lauren got a really great email that she wants to share pieces of from one of our former students about the benefits. Jeena Cho: [00:21:29] Yeah, yeah. And I think that's really one of the greatest teaching that comes out of mindfulness and meditation, is just that empathy and having compassion toward someone that's suffering. And sometimes it can be like, well we're lawyers, like we shouldn't have that. But I mean, that's the core of what we do. Like we are in the suffering business. Like clients never come to us with happy news. [00:21:53] I always thought that it was always really weird that we're in this environment where people are constantly coming to us with the most heartbreaking news, but yet we don't actually have any tools for how to deal and process all the suffering of our clients. I do consumer bankruptcy, no one ever comes to see me with happy news, I hear heart-breaking stories. And I just didn't have any tools and what ended up happening was that I went through burnout. I remember thinking, I'm such a failure as a lawyer because I went through burnout, not recognizing that I just needed some additional tools. So again, I'm just so grateful to you guys for doing this. [00:22:32] So yeah Lauren, I'd love to hear some of what the student wrote in the email. Lauren Dubin: [00:22:36] I'm not going to read the whole thing obviously, but her words are just really powerful and I cherish this. So this was about three years after she graduated and took LIB. And she wrote to myself and my co-facilitator: [00:22:51] "I just want to say thank you again for a great LIB experience. Thanks to you both, I continue to meditate at least once a week, often more. It's a great stress reliever. But more than anything, the seminar made me gain a much more balanced perspective on the big and little things in my life. And the seminar has without a doubt made me a better lawyer. I'm able to examine arguments and take criticism much more easily, without getting my emotions unnecessarily involved, or taking what I perceive as my lack of perfection personally. It sounds small, but it makes a huge difference in my work and my day-to-day life. Your seminar also made me realize that mindfulness and perspective are so crucial to the things that make us succeed in life. Those qualities I think are a prerequisite to character traits like determination, self-motivation, empathy, and self-control, that are keys to being a good student, lawyer, and life partner. As my husband and I think about having kids, those are definitely the types of values we want to instill in them. I wish, along with math and reading, I had taken mindfulness when I was growing up." Jeena Cho: [00:24:06] Beautiful, yeah I got slightly teary-eyed hearing, just beautiful. [00:24:14] Getting a new website design can be a huge pain. But what if I told you that building a new website for your law firm didn't have to suck? My friends at Spotlight Branding pride themselves on their responsiveness, on great communication and on delivering results for their clients. And Spotlight Branding doesn't lock their clients into long-term contracts. In fact, they offer a no risk, money-back guarantee on their work, so that you can have total peace of mind while you work with them. Spotlight Branding will help you stand out from the competition, drive more referrals, and ultimately achieve the growth you're looking for. Their team is currently offering a special, complementary website review for our listeners. Visit spotlightbranding.com/trl to learn more. Jeena Cho: [00:25:09] So Lauren I'm curious, can you tell me about how the facilitators are trained? Lauren Dubin: [00:25:15] Yeah, sure. So as I had said earlier, we've sort of evolved and made the program more of our own over the years. But in the early years, Michael would tap people on the shoulder and say, "Hey, do you want to be part of this thing?" So there was sort of a core group of five of us, and we went with the med school training and we joined in. And they had over 100 facilitators over there, because their program had been running for years. And we joined up and had a pretty extraordinary three day experience, this initial group of five. So every year we would send two or three more people (we had the budget for that) to the Mind-Body training. And basically the training entails going through an entire eight-week session, having the experience over the course of three days. So that you are a student, you are actually experiencing it. So it's not really the sort of training where you then are leading meditations or are writing scripts or finding scripts or administering that program at all. It's 100% go away to a beautiful retreat center and have the experience of the check in, the reflection, you know experiencing the scripts and the techniques. So for several years that's what we did. And you know, it was working, but at a certain point we kept fantasizing that we would like to have our own training. That it would just be members of the Law Center staff and community, and that we would build bonds amongst ourselves. And these are the people that were going to go on and lead the program here. [00:26:48] It's all volunteer, it's out of you know, the goodness of our hearts, it's something we believe in. But none of us are paid for this, this is in addition to our day job. So we just thought, there are other reasons for us to have our own training. So we modified that, and we've been doing it now for two summers. And each summer we were able to have around 10 additional Law Center staff members participate, and we just tweaked it. But it's the same thing; we come in. we get to know one another. we do a lot of team building. We make sure that we go somewhere beautiful and quiet and lots of nature. And we have eating meditation and walking meditation and journaling and imagery, we do all of that, all those techniques. [00:27:32] What we're trying to do now is give people the opportunity to practice also, while they're there. Because we come home, everybody's really high and invested, and you come home; to life and the laundry. And then all of a sudden it's late August or early September and suddenly we say okay go, lead a group. We try to make sure that a new facilitator is paired with a more senior facilitator so that you're not on your own the first time. We created a binder with new scripts and new process prompts and other readings and things that facilitators can use for their students. We send the team emails, sample emails and sample follow-up emails. What we try to do is after each session, is have a follow-up email to send to students with practice tips for the week. [00:28:24] Not everyone does that consistently, but we have all sorts of different things that any one group can do. There is no one way, one group will be doing walking one week and somebody else will be doing journaling. There isn't this, you have to do it in a particular sequence. So during the training, something I should have said is we select people very carefully. We select people that we think are empaths and either have a practice or absolutely someone that students will feel very comfortable with. They establish trust and rapport quickly. So we're pretty careful in choosing people that will be very engaged in this, but that students will respond well to. [00:29:05] And there will be ongoing training throughout the year, we try and meet twice a month for about an hour just to share ideas. How is your group going, try out a script with one another. Do a meditation together and a reflection, just to continue modeling it. So where everybody is busy and everybody has a lot of email and meetings to attend, but we try to just keep moving it along and always building it and thinking creatively. Jeena Cho: [00:29:35] I love hearing that sort of history of how the program came about, and just how you guys have really grown this practice from volunteers, I think it's really remarkable. [00:29:50] Nicole I know you used to be in big law, and I know one of the things that hot topics right now is how to make the workplace more humane or more friendly. And it seems like especially big laws are kind of waking up to the fact that, oh the well-being of our attorneys actually matter. I'm curious you know, since you've worked in big law, what sort of tips would you offer to a law firm that's considering implementing a program like the one that you guys have at the law school? Nicole Sandoz: [00:30:21] Yeah, I mean I think that this would be an amazing program to implement at a law firm. Especially the one hour sessions are sort of the perfect package deal, in terms of getting some of that check-in, but not..You know, I think that part of the problem with law firms is that like Michael said, nobody wants things that are too touchy-feely. Or that that there is a risk of diving deep into these emotions and then having some sort of backlash while you're working or with someone you're working with. So the one hour sessions do take back that a little bit, and focus a little bit more on the techniques. And sharing those techniques and making sure that people have tools to use while they're practicing. [00:31:03] I have been working with a friend of mine who is still in big law, and sort of ad hoc showing him some of these techniques that he can use. And he's actually really appreciated it, he started journaling, just journaling every evening. And I'm hoping that it's helping him reduce some of his stress that he was finding as he's heading towards the partnership track, and the more stress that that brings. I shared a few techniques with him, and it was the one that stuck. And that's sort of the thing that we tell our students, is try as many times as you can and then find the one or two that you can take with you. Not every technique is going to feel right, so you've got to find the one that fits for you. And then just keep using it and keep practicing it, and using it to help reduce your stress. [00:31:45] So it's been really successful I think, for my friend. And so I think a law firm could do this really easily and give their lawyers some techniques to use, but maybe without as much of the check-in, so that you don't have people who fear that it's going to have some sort of backlash in the workplace. Jeena Cho: [00:32:02] Yeah it's always a little tricky to try to implement something like this, especially in a law firm environment. Michael, did you have something that you wanted to add? [00:32:11] I've spoken to some big law lawyers or groups or whatever. And one thing I've found that is effective, and I've done this with our legal experts as well at the law school, is simply when you're in a tight situation, you're not sure how to handle it. Stop, take a couple breaths, pay attention to your breaths. Just do that instant meditation and then come back to it. And to a person they say, "Oh." They see a different option, a different approach where that is not the end of the world. So I think even that quick cure as it were, or pill if you want to call it, self-meditation does work. And if it's something that they can use, try it out. And say, "Hmmm, I think I'll do that again." And that's how you get your foot in the door as well. Jeena Cho: [00:33:13] Yeah. It's so interesting, because you hear that saying like, oh you know just take a deep breath, count to ten before you say something when you're angry. But it actually works. I found really surprising when I first started practicing mindfulness that I can be in a hearing, and just by actually really paying attention to what the judge or the opposing counsel was saying without letting my mind kind of do it what it naturally does (which is to prepare my response) but really just a listen. And then once the person is finished speaking just take a breath, kind-of collect my thoughts and then respond. I was actually able to slow down the pace of how things were moving in the courtroom. And I just found that to be so fascinating, that I'm not this helpless person standing in the courtroom and on the whim of what the judge or the opposing counsel was doing; that I actually do have some more autonomy than I initially thought. And I found that to be incredibly helpful. Michael Goldman: [00:34:10] You know many athletes do that same thing, and you used the word "slow down." I think you slow down what's going on. And most athletes will say, when things seem to slow down they can do so much better. The key is that you slow yourself down. Jeena Cho: [00:34:27] Right, exactly. And even just something really simple like just feeling the sensation of my feet as I'm standing at the podium, or just feeling my hands resting on the podium. Just something you can touch and feel and focus on, that just for a moment gets you out of that anxiety mode. Where it's like, oh my gosh what is he going to ask me next? And the question after that, and you kind of go into that spiral of thinking. [00:34:57] And of course, when things go sideways it never goes wrong in the exact same way that you had anticipated. I had a very similar story from one of the attorneys that took one of my courses. And she said, "You know I realized when I was with my kids I was never fully present to them, because I was always thinking about work or on my phone." And then of course the reverse was also true, like she would be at the office and thinking about her kids and being like, did I remember to put that book in her backpack? And she said, "I really learned just when I'm with my kid, to fully just be with her. And when I'm at work, just to be at work." And it sounds so simple, but to practice it almost requires a constant re-commitment and effort to bring yourself back to that moment, over and over and over again. It's not like you can just do it first thing in the morning and then forget about it. It's that constant reminder. [00:35:51] So what are some of the other applications of meditation and mindfulness at the law center? Nicole Sandoz: [00:35:57] Yeah, so we realized sort of as we went along that Lawyers In Balance is amazing, but we have 600 students to try to reach. And we have a limited number of facilitators, so we can really only have 78 sessions maybe, per semester. So we're just not going to hit everyone. And so we've been brainstorming and using some of these techniques to spread the message across to different students and other people at the law center. About six years ago we had a group of students who were in Lawyers in Balance who wanted to sort of keep some of the meditation going. And so they founded a new student group called The Contemplative Law Society, and they are charged with bringing some of the mindfulness and meditation techniques through the student group experience. And so that has been a nice way for the community at large, and for students to take some ownership over the teaching of some of this. [00:37:05] We also have implemented it in orientations, so we have a wellness focus as part of our orientation. And we did two meditation sessions per day, every day of orientation. And it was open for any student who wanted to come and learn a little bit more about Lawyers in Balance, but also to just take part in a meditation; to just really set the tone right at the beginning of orientation, that this is important to us and that it's something that makes Georgetown special. And we're so glad you're here, and to just give them a taste of what that would be like. [00:37:37] And we also have started a Staff in Balance program, so we realized that these great techniques can also be helping our staff and faculty. And so we have a wonderful woman in our community named Mitos, who really takes that on as a labor of love and does Staff in Balance every semester. She has a group of 12 to 15 staff members who take part and learn some of the same techniques that students are using as well. [00:38:04] Lauren and I just did a Saturday session. So we have an evening student section at Georgetown, and it's really hard to get facilitators to teach in the evenings. But also in addition to that, they class in the evening. So the timing never really works out. And so what we decided to do was to do a half-day meditation retreat on a Saturday and really advertise it to our evening students and their significant others. And we had staff and evening students and day students and just a bunch of people here on a Saturday, learning some techniques and getting some mindfulness and meditation; it was a couple Saturdays ago. And then Michael teaches in the externship course. Michael Goldman: [00:38:44] Yeah, in the past I had the opportunity to teach a couple sessions in the externship training. And I taught mindfulness, and it's in that context where I taught them and showed them how to use the breathing approach to dealing with difficult issues. In fact, even in class we would talk about difficult issues they dealt with in their externship, often with a boss who is not communicating very well. And so they would actually go through it and take a couple breaths and say, okay, so what do you think about it now? And then they thought of new ways to deal with it. And we actually had a sheet where they would actually describe what was going on, how they took the meditation, and what it looked like afterwards. And it was quite effective. [00:39:35] Actually, I got some of the ideas for that from Scott Rogers, who I assume and I take it you know. So this was something that we implemented. Jeena Cho: [00:39:45] Yeah I think it's really great that you guys are bringing mindfulness into all these different areas of the law school. Michael Goldman: [00:39:52] There is a deep-sea mindful lawyers group, they actually were involved in that half-day retreat here at the law school. The good news is now they use Georgetown Law for their monthly training or monthly retreat sessions. And so we are really aligned with them now, in fact the President of that is an alum of Georgetown Law. So we're able to combine forces. Jeena Cho: [00:40:21] Well I want to thank all three of you for joining me today, it has just been so delightful. And I love hearing about mindfulness spreading in law schools. And it's been really fun to hear about the evolution of the program. And to kind of wrap things up. Michael I'm curious, the name of this podcast is called The Resilient Lawyer. What does it mean to be I mean resilient lawyer to you? Michael Goldman: [00:40:48] To me, what I think mindfulness provides, and I'm changing the message slightly, is the ability as one of us to step back. I think there's so many times where you're engaged in an issue, you join the issue, you're wrestling over the issue. And it can go sideways, as you indicated. But the ability to step back a little bit and say, wait a second. What if I concede this? It's not going to hurt us at all, as a matter of fact it might help us. The ability to get that perspective almost instantaneously, I think is not only a great tool as a lawyer, it does give you resilience. Because it makes you realize you're not stuck in a corner, you're never stuck in a corner. You never are in an impossible situation. [00:41:42] You can see the bigger picture, and I think that's essential to resilience. That you realize you don't have to have burnout. Because you can listen with empathy to the other side. You can see their perspective, if you see their perspective you might well find a solution, a mutually beneficial solution. Same thing with a client, of course clients come in and ask for "X." And if you're able to recognize, they're not interested in "X", beating that other person out isn't going to do anybody any good. What is underneath that? I know that's interest. But I think mindfulness, resiliency allows you to see the bigger picture. And I think as a lawyer that's what we're supposed to do. Jeena Cho: [00:42:35] Yeah, I think that possibility of a different solution that you don't currently know. It's a wonderful, wonderful gift from mindfulness. Nicole, how about you? Nicole Sandoz: [00:42:47] Yeah, so this is actually a question I think about a lot. Our Dean of Students, one of his passions is creating resilient law students, and therefore creating resilient lawyers. And we think about it a lot in different ways, but a couple of the ways we think about it is taking that ticker tape that's in your head, that can be negative but positive, but just sort of that those thoughts that are running through. And stopping those thoughts and re-framing them, if needed particularly the negative thoughts, and creating a different frame for them. And using that frame to move forward when you need to. [00:43:21] It's also the time when people face a lot of different challenges and it's being able to breathe, like Michael said, take a breath, rethink this, and attack it in a different way and learn from it. I think our law students in particular struggle a lot with, you know they were all top of their undergrad class, and they get to law school and there's a lot of challenges here. It's a new way of thinking and learning, and we work really hard to try to get them to understand that this is going to be a challenge, but that part of resilience is learning from that challenge. And it's your mindset, it's not seeing this as a failure, but instead seeing this as a learning opportunity to grow. And I think mindfulness plays a huge part in that, of just taking a breath, re-framing and moving forward. Jeena Cho: [00:44:11] Lauren? Lauren Dubin: [00:44:13] I would add one additional dimension, and that is accessing compassion. This work allows lawyers, who generally feel there's really no room for softness, for vulnerability, for letting opposing counsel see you as weak then. That's crazy, we're all vulnerable and fragile and doing the best we can. So I think self and other compassion, when you can really access that and own it and hold it, just allows everyone to be more flexible, to be kinder. We're all doing a job for a purpose, and it might be opposing purpose, but we have one life, and kindness and compassion are just so vital. [00:45:12] So Michael used the term touchy-feely several times, and to me a resilient lawyer is one that embraces touchy-feely and squishy. I love the layering into our work and this message of adding compassion into this profession. I work with students as a counselor, so I have a lot of one-on-one, intimate conversations with students all day long. And so many of them express this stress over not being able to be authentic and sincere and real. And the essay they wrote for admission to law school is so different than reality or the practice. So compassion allows you to recognize that, but have compassion for it. And then hopefully, eventually be more integrated, which I think is a result. Jeena Cho: [00:46:10] Yeah. And I hope that those students can retain some of that and bring it out into the workforce. I think that our profession is just severely suffering from lack of humanity. I think about touchy-feely as just being a core of what it means to be human, to actually have emotions and feelings. It's so crazy to me to think that lawyers are supposed to be devoid of feelings and emotions, because that's the thing that drives our clients and drives us. So yeah, I think we need to make more room for all the touchy-feely. Not to say that we have to react to every single touchy-feely thing, but to just hold it kindly. Lauren Dubin: [00:46:54] So loaded, why does it have to be such a loaded term? Jeena Cho: [00:46:54] Well I want to thank all three of you for being here with me today. I'm so grateful to all of you, for all the work that you're doing. Lauren Dubin: [00:47:09] Thank you. Lauren Dubin: [00:47:10] Thanks for giving us the opportunity. Closing: [00:47:20] Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you enjoy the show, please tell a friend. 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